Me Too

By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in iPhone, Apple on June 11, 2008 at 9:08 am

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The only problem with Apple is they just can’t do tacky. What was the first thing that came to mind when they announced mac.com’s name change to ‘MobileMe’? Mini-Me of course. Unless they were thinking of the Britpop one-hit-wonders Me Me Me or the iTunes track of the same name sporting an ‘Explicit’ warning tag.

Where did Apple get this title from? Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week May 2005 “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”. This time a little focussing might have gone a long way. It must have seemed a good idea for customers to have an email address of yourname@me.com, thankfully the old yourname@mac.com will still work.

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Jobs also commented on a NeXT programmers work in 2000: “You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting”. Er

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